Is the U in UberGraphX supposed to be pronounced like the English letter U, or is it supposed to be more like the Ü in über?

I'm quite excited to see more updates This is for sure on my wishlist
The new site looks great, quite professional indeed. One thing I would like to mention though is that your Contact Us page should have some sort of Captcha to keep spambot abuse from happening.
Can't wait to see this progress farther along

I don't think so. $150 for Student Version, $180-$200 for Proffesional

Yeah yesterday I checked the site and it was down again. X.x I'm glad it's back up.

I'm gonna check more stuff there soon. I really can't wait to see more updates and especially the prototype.

EDIT: Btw despite the new forum on your site, are you still planning to post updates here too in the future?

Has the price estimates changed at all?

No, they still have stayed the same. Changes in the pricing might change however when manufacturing actually does start to happen. Either the pricing for the parts (I haven't actually stocked the parts yet) will decrease from now till summer, or there turns out to be a huge demand in pre-orders which will lower down the manufacturing costs (that reminds me, does anyone live in Ontario, Canada? The company that will assemble the PCBs resides there. It might be cool having someone who could go over there and check out what's happening when the boards get manufactured). I will promise however that the whatever the price turns out to be, it'll be more fair than anything else on the market (compare a $150 TI-nSpire CX to the $150 UberGraphX). I've been doing fine on my own financially before I started this project and making huge profits would be unrealistic and is not my goal. In fact, I'm quite disgusted that TI makes over a half billion US dollars each year in revenue selling calculators by ripping off students and cheating them of functionality (like programming capabilities or math features such as 3D graphing and especially the fact the the TI-nSpire CX and Touchpad lack dedicated sin, cos and tan buttons, which is highly essential in educational courses for trigonometry and calculus). All I ask is enough profit to cover the costs spent into prototyping, developing, filing the trademark, patenting and FCC/CE certification costs for the product.

Edit: Also, if you're using Octave or Maple, or somethin similar for math, consider writing a GUI around it so that it is easier for a newbie to use. Sure, their commands are simple once you know them, and fairly easy to use, but people want the newbie-common-sense input to just work.

I don't really use Octave (I actually use Mathematica), so does a GUI frontend exists for Octave? Would it be possible to modify it for our use?

What do you think the battery life will be? And when using the 3d accelerator?

I'm expecting to use a 4400mAh polymer lithium ion battery, which I estimate would give around 15-20 hours of typical usage. The hours would vary depending on what you're doing on the calculator, it might last longer. It's expected to give at least 10 hours of usage on full load with every peripheral turned on, which should be enough to last through the whole school day and go back home to charge it using your PC through USB.

EDIT: Btw despite the new forum on your site, are you still planning to post updates here too in the future?

Yeah, I'll still post updates here. I actually do read the forums frequently, but I'm coy in posting. I don't really like to write a lot of posts without having something to show, because I'm afraid it would make people impatient or lose interest for those who are waiting for the this calculator to come out. The next couple of months should be pretty exciting though. Just need to double check the designs for the board and sign it off for manufacturing. When that happens, I'll notify you guys and tell you how the board comes out. Also, I need to go over and check the geometry of the casing (at least the framing part), then get it prototyped via 3D printing. I'll post pictures of the frame when it comes out as soon as I can.

EDIT:
Crossposting this, because it may end confusion and is important:

Uberspire is the planned name of the startup to manufacture the UberGraphX under. I was kind of hesitant in announcing this, because we haven't actually trademarked the name yet. :oops: So, we can't get in trouble with Texas Instrument's, since they use "spire" with a product, whereas we use it as a company name. However, the name was indirectly influenced in that TI named their product TI-nSpire to con-notate that it's inspiring, where in reality it absolutely isn't (lack of programming, overpriced hardware, etc.) But if TI gets to claim that their product is "inspiring", then our product is way "above inspiring", hence the name Uberspire. If you were wondering where I got the name, that's how it came to be.

Especially the fact the the TI-nSpire CX and Touchpad lack dedicated sin, cos and tan buttons, which is highly essential in educational courses for trigonometry and calculus).

You also are missing an essential button: ? !
joking (not that I would be angry if you add it )

Btw. Thx. for your explanation about the alt key.

Woah the Nspire has no Sin/Cos/Tan buttons? I sure hope it has such features, though... all scientific calcs, even the cheapest ones, got them X.x

But yeah I am so impatient in seeing that calc prototype in action at one point. It just looks so great and I wish you the best of luck in reaching your goal.

I have a little question: Will you stick with that Armstrong gui, or will you switch to another one?